Manon
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manon is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam via Greek/Latin.
- FRFrance1 in 391◐
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7K
- CACanada1 in 6.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈175K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 375 ●
- 1 in 391 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
426K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Man-On in PH Philippines and Манон in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam via Greek/Latin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #101 | 173,400 | 393K rec. | 1 in 391 | 173K | Manon | 375 |
| CA Canada | #674 | 13,075 | 12K rec. | — | 1 | Manon | 143 |
| BE Belgium | #168 | 9,231 | 8.4K rec. | — | 138 | Manon | 112 |
| US United States | — | 1,173 | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 284K | 1.2K | Manon | 184 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 940 | 829 rec. | — | — | Manon | 73 |
| EG Egypt | — | 672 | 271 rec. | — | — | Manon | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 524 | 352 rec. | — | 9 | Manon | 61 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #554 | 212 | 16 rec. | — | 5 | Manon | 10 |
| MQ Martinique | #571 | 181 | 16 rec. | — | 5 | Manon | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 164 | 181 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 164 | Manon | 50 |
| PH Philippines | — | 164 | 222 rec. | — | — | Man-On | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 159 | 4.5K rec. | 1 in 315K | 225 | Manon | 50 |
Roughly 173K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 391). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French1.1M88%
- English42K3%
- Dutch37K3%
- Western Frisian29K2%
- Spanish6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 1,073,025 | 88% |
| English | 41,719 | 3% |
| Dutch | 37,391 | 3% |
| Western Frisian | 28,861 | 2% |
| Spanish | 5,958 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Manon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a female given name, popular in the 1990s and the 2000s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Dérivé de Marianne; origine hébraïque, « goutte de mer ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Diminutif de Marie, d’origine hébraïque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of mano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, to urge, to exhort
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 4 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 4 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 4 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1943 | 7 |
| 1944 | 8 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 11 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 8 |
| 1954 | 14 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 10 |
| 1957 | 14 |
| 1958 | 15 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 17 |
| 1961 | 17 |
| 1962 | 21 |
| 1963 | 17 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 22 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 18 |
| 1968 | 22 |
| 1969 | 27 |
| 1970 | 23 |
| 1971 | 18 |
| 1972 | 17 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 20 |
| 1975 | 22 |
| 1976 | 17 |
| 1977 | 20 |
| 1978 | 17 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 12 |
| 1981 | 21 |
| 1982 | 12 |
| 1983 | 18 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 15 |
| 1988 | 23 |
| 1989 | 20 |
| 1990 | 27 |
| 1991 | 19 |
| 1992 | 23 |
| 1993 | 30 |
| 1994 | 23 |
| 1995 | 27 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2017 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1920–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Manon Rolandb. 1754FRFrench revolutionary
- Manon Gropiusb. 1916ATAustrian artistic muse (1916-1935)
- Manon Rasmussenb. 1951DKDanish costume designer
- Manon Briandb. 1964CACanadian film director and screenwriter
- Manon Bollegrafb. 1964NLDutch tennis player
- Manon Aubryb. 1989FRFrench politician (born 1989)
- Manon Azemb. 1990FRFrench actress
- Manon Gaurinb. 1994FRFrench actress
- Manon Brunetb. 1996FRFrench fencer
- Manon Breschb. 1998FRFrench actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 78 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 173K | #100 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13K | #306 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 982 | #25,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 833 | #27,289 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 258 | #3,020 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 164 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 159 | #10,832 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 147 | #1,224 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 144 | #6,651 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 139 | #5,364 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 699 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Manon?
- We estimate roughly 175 thousand people bear Manon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Manon have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 173 thousand people bear Manon in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled manon.
- Where is Manon most common?
- Manon is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 391 people carrying it.
- How common is Manon compared with other names?
- In France, Manon is the 101st most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Manon a male or female name?
- Manon is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Manon mean?
- Recorded meaning: French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam via Greek/Latin.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Manon” — the 101st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.